Staging Age : The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film

This text explores how performers offer conscious-and unconscious-portrayals of the spectrum of age to their audiences. It considers a variety of media, including theatre, film, dance, advertising, and television, and offers critical foundations for research and course design, sound pedagogical approaches, and analyses. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 “That Younger, Fresher Woman”: Old Wives for New (1918) and Hollywood’s Cult of Youth....Pages 11-26 The Unconscious of Age: Performances in Psychoanalysis, Film, and Popular Culture....Pages 27-55 Old Cops: Occupational Aging in a Film Genre....Pages 57-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Performing Female Age in Shakespeare’s Plays....Pages 85-108 Mediating Childhood: How Child Spectators Interpret Actors’ Bodies in Theatrical Media....Pages 109-127 “What Age am I Now? and I?”: The Science of the Aged Voice in Beckett’s Plays....Pages 129-149 Molière’s Miser, Old Age, and Potency....Pages 151-161 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Old Dogs, New Tricks: Intergenerational Dance....Pages 165-189 Age and the Dance Artist....Pages 191-206 Still Tapping after All These Years: Age and Respect in Tap Dance....Pages 207-223 Back Matter....Pages 225-238